Writing historical fiction : thoughts from two practitioners / Alice Thompson and Susan Sellers. Rewriting history : reasserting the female -- The virtuosa and the ventriloquists : Janice Galloway's Clara / Theresa Jamieson -- Making up, or making over : reconstructing the modern female author / Emma Short -- A deviant device : diary dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace / Kym Brindle -- Whoso list to hunt : the literary fortunes of Anne Boleyn / Julia Crane -- Imagines histories : romancing fictional heroines -- Do knights still rescue damsels in distress? : reimagining the medieval in Mills & Boon historical romance / Amy Burge -- Sexual f(r)ictions : pornography in neo-Victorian women's fiction / Nadine Muller -- Re-claiming Anne Damer/re-covering Sapphic history : Emma Donoghue's Life Mask / Claire O'Callaghan -- Things slipping between past and present : feminism and the gothic in Kate Mosse's Sepulchre / Katherine Cooper -- Rewriting history : reasserting the female -- Imagine, investigate, intervene? : a consideration of feminist intent and metafictive invention in the historical fictions of A.S. Byatt and Marina Warner / Siân Harris -- In defence of fiction : history and imagination in Kate Grenville's The Secret River and The Lieutenant / Anna Gething -- Difficulties, discontinuities, and differences : reading women's historical fiction / Diana Wallace -- Writing historical fiction : thoughts from two practitioners / Alice Thompson and Susan Sellers.
Summary:
From The other Boleyn girl to Fingersmith, this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.
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